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Originally Posted by Mankycaaant
I could name about 20-30 rappers off the top of my head that are better lyricists than Biggie.
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I wonder how many of those artists took influence from Biggie himself.
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Here's one for you. How can so many people consider Biggie to be one of the greatest of all time based off of two albums?
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Because they're both really really good? Take a guess yourself.
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Nobody talks about Big Pun or Big L who had the same number of albums, one studio album and one posthumous release being the greatest of all time despite the fact they were both superior MC's to Notorious BIG.
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Big L was ill, no lie. His rhyme schemes weren't nearly as interesting as BIG's, though, which is a large part of his credentials.
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As for his imagery, it's all clichéd as I'd already pointed out, just talk about guns, bitches and pretending to be Al Capone.
It doesn't interest me in the slightest.
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This from the guy who digs "Backseat Freestyle."
Ok, in two minutes Biggie dropped lines like:
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They heard about the Rolex's and the Lexus
wit the Texas license plate outta state
they heard about the pounds
you got down in Georgetown
now they heard you got half of Virginia locked down
they even heard about the crib
you bought your moms out in Florida
the fifth corridor....
Who the **** is this?
pagin me at 5:46 in the mornin crack a dawnin
now I'm yawnin, wipe the cold out my eye
I got the calico with the black talons loaded in the clip
so I can rip through the ligaments
all purpose war got the rottweilers by the door
and I feed em gun powder so they can devour
the criminals tryna to drop my decimals
they even heard about the crib
you bought your moms out in Florida
the fifth corridor....
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Even if you don't like what he's talking about, it's still vivid.